SIMONA LAZĂR Cercetător ştiinţific III, dr., Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane „C. S. Nicolăescu-Plopşor” din Craiova, al Academiei Române; E-mail: simonalazar@yahoo.com Abstract C. S. Nicolaescu-Plopşor (1900-1968) is the figure of a scholar with multiple concerns in scientific research, as an archaeologist, historian, anthropologist, folklorist and ethnographer, geographer. The concerns of literary …

RADU LAURENŢIU Cercetător ştiinţific III, dr., Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane „C. S. Nicolăescu-Plopşor” din Craiova, al Academiei Române; E-mail: xpatrick2013@yahoo.com Abstract The welfare of families and of the general population relies on social protection mechanisms based on traditional and professional services. Practically, each one of the public services has its …

ALEXANDRA OANŢĂ (NACU) Doctorand, Universitatea din Craiova; E-mail: alexanacu@yahoo.com Abstract Due to an increase in the complexity and unpredictability of internal and external risks that threaten national security, the need to improve the system of national security requires that institutions with responsibilities in national security and defence should be better …

SAVA (MIREA) ANTOANETA LAURA Cercetător ştiinţific III, dr., Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane „C. S. Nicolăescu-Plopşor” din Craiova, al Academiei Române; E-mail: savaantoaneta@yahoo.com Abstract As a consequence of the most important challenges that the main problems that contemporaneity is dealing with – the exacerbation of nationalism, the racial and ethnic-religious conflicts, …

GHEORGHE DĂNIŞOR Cercetător ştiinţific I, Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane „C.S. Nicolăescu Plopşor” din Craiova al Academiei Române Abstract Human freedom is determined, on the one hand, by the relationship between the individual and the state and, on the other hand, by the relationship between the community of which the individual …

KARINA PAULINA MARCZUK Dr. hab., Assistant Professor, PhD, D. Litt. in Political Science, Institute of International Relations, Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, Warsaw University, Poland; E-mail: k.marczuk@uw.edu.pl Abstract This article concerns the internal security acts of France and Portugal as well as – in contrast – India. These states …

ION MILITARU Cercetător ştiinţific I, dr., Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane „C.S. Nicolaescu Plopşor” din Craiova, al Academiei Române; E-mail: militaruion_l@yahoo.com Abstract “The Life of the Elements – The Element in the Early Modern Period (Don Quixote)” is a study on the classic understanding of the element against the background of …

GABRIELA BOANGIU Cercetător ştiinţific III, dr., Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane „C. S. Nicolăescu-Plopşor” din Craiova, al Academiei Române; E-mail: boangiu_g@yahoo.com GABRIEL CROITORU Cercetător ştiinţific III, dr., Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane „C. S. Nicolăescu-Plopşor” din Craiova, al Academiei Române; E-mail: gabrielcroitoru288@yahoo.com Abstract This study was inspired by the mythical dimension of …

LOREDANA-MARIA ILIN-GROZOIU Cercetător ştiinţific III, dr., Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane „C. S. NicolăescuPlopşor” din Craiova, al Academiei Române; E-mail: lorelayy2007@yahoo.com Abstract The attitudes and the gestures performed in the funerary ritual, along with the popular creations, which bear the value of verbal rites, have a strong symbolic efficiency, connected to …